Το πηγάδι και το εκκρεμές

by Edgar Allan Poe, Δημοσθένης Κούρτοβικ (Translator), Γιάννης Σολδάτος (Editor)

Στο βιβλίο αυτό περιέχονται τα εξής κείμενα του Πόε: Το πηγάδι και το εκκρεμές. Ο Βασιλιάς Πανούκλας. Η μάσκα του Κόκκινου Θανάτου. Η σκιά. Το πνεύμα του κακού. Οι νεκροφανείς. Ο άνθρωπος του πλήθους.

Genres: Horror, Mystery, The United States Of America, Gothic, Short Stories, Fiction

149 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.

Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.

The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.

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Reviews

[Νεκτάριος Καλογήρου · Rating 5 out of 5]

Μια συλλογή με τα πιο χαρακτηριστικά του διηγήματα. "Το πηγάδι και το εκκρεμές", "Η μάσκα του κόκκινου θανάτου", "Ο βασιλιάς Πανούκλας", "Νεκροφανείς" και άλλες ιστορίες σ' ένα βιβλιαράκι 150 σελίδων. Ολες γραμμένες με την ιδιαίτερη γλαφυρότητα του Πόε και με εξαιρετική μετάφραση από τον Δημοσθένη Κούρτοβικ.
Εξαιρετικό σε όλα του.

[Dimitra · Rating 5 out of 5]

I will say what I always say about Poe, no matter which of his stories/poems I read...
Poe is an artist! Poe is unique!
Poe is mysterious! Poe is scary!
Poe is Poe!!! <3 And I love him!!!
All of his stories and poems give you the chills and you just can't stop reading!!!
If you haven't read any of his work...please do a gift to yourself and go read some!!!

[Anna Baboura · Rating 5 out of 5]

Πολλές μικρές ιστορίες σε ένα βιβλίο.
Το πηγάδι βαθύ, υγρό και με ένα θανατηφόρο εκκρεμές.
Ο βασιλιάς Πανούκλας σε ένα καπηλειό (όχι και τόσο όμορφο όπως λένε οι Χαΐνηδες) αλλά δύσοσμο (τα τσιγάρα, τα ποτά και τα ξενύχτια έχουν κλείσει τα καλύτερα τα σπίτια) με ήρωες που είναι δύσμορφοι.
Η μάσκα του Κόκκινου Θανάτου, με έναν πρίγκηπα σε μπαλ μασκέ, που η δεξίωσή του κατέληξε να είναι πιο κόκκινη και από πεδίο μάχης.
Η σκιά πάνω από μία ελληνική επαρχιακή πόλη είναι μια στιγμή που το φως αλλάζει και οι σκιές μας που σιωπούν γίνονται γυμνά κορμιά και στάζει και καρδιές που αιμορραγούν ... όπως λέει και η Τσαλιγοπούλου.

[€l!na · Rating 5 out of 5]

edgar allan poe...do I need to say more?!